Wishbone #7 (year unknown):

This is a new book of local Orange County poetry penned by a recent graduate of UC Riverside's Creative Writing program. There appears to be two types of poems here: one in a kind of gauzy, romantic style, and the other in a direct-statement, didactic style. Here is a sample from the latter:
 

We cannot come to the phone right now.
We're busy bleeding dragons,
Twisting tools to shape hands for ideas.
Stones are taking busily to shape.
Floating a little longer,
Seeking a softer coffin. (from "We Are Busy")

The group of poems which follow along these lines are my personal favorites, in that they seem more philosophical and thought-provoking. In all this perfect-bound little book offers 44 poems, some of several pages in length. Barton actually worked off a small grant from UC Riverside in putting out the book, so it is a rather handsome volume, on high-quality paper, clearly printed and flawlessly edited. A few photographs, artistically altered, punctuate and separate sections of the book. The poems are of a consistently satisfying quality, each offering quiet or startling images to contemplate.